Mister Miracle #1

[history79]

"I wanted to write about the Trump era, but I didn’t want to write, “Fascism sucks” or “Trump sucks.” That doesn’t get you anywhere. You’re taking your Twitter feed and putting it in panels. What I wanted to do is capture the emotion of the period, and the anxiety, the way Alan Moore captured the anxiety of the ‘80s or Kirby captured the anxiety of the ‘70s or even Lee captured the optimism of the ‘60s; to capture the feeling, more than the politics. That’s what interests me. That’s how you make something that’s just not a polemic. After page four, the whole thing goes into a 9-panel grid, and it’s to give you a sense of that claustrophobia. To give you a sense of what it is to be trapped, not only in the themes and the words, but in the actual panel structure. He’s trapped behind those bars we had in Omega Men, and how does he break out?"

- Tom King

Comments

[starwolf_oakley]

It was worse in 2006. I'm not sure how "George W. Bush is a bad president" led to "Tony Stark is a fascist with an interest in superhero conscription, while Steve Rogers is an old school government-is-bad anarchist," but there you go.

[tigerkaya]

Don't talk to me about 2006 I was there at the beginning with Disassembled!

Now I have writers at a company channeling all their political B.S. by rewriting a character's moral compass to let out their temper tantrum over Trumps presidency.

Oh and apparently if I dislike the current legacy characters Marvel thinks people like me are sexist and racist and that the creators from the 60's that put their hear and soul into creating comics were white guys that considered comics a hobby.

True story on that last part on Alonso's blog.